At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union ... the American Union fell apart. 11 southern states came together to break away and form the ...
In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...
Among other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics attempting to one-up each ... pairing to break the sound ...
Covered the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Security correspondent from 2003 to 2008. Speaks French, Russian and (rusty) German and Polish. category Turkey monthly inflation to ...
The naval base established by the Soviet Union during the cold war ... “ISIS has the intent to break out of detention the over 8,000 ISIS operatives currently being held in facilities in ...
Their dramatic defections to the Soviet Union marked a turning point in Cold ... amid fears of arrest and that their spy ring was about to be broken up, Blunt feared his KGB handler would turn ...
Brent crude futures rose 46 cents, or 0.6%, to $75.10 a barrel by 0128 GMT after settling up ... via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine on New Year's Day. The widely expected stoppage will ...
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said ... Meanwhile, defense spending will make up 32.5% of its federal budget, up from 28.3% in 2024. Sikorski said Russia under Putin "has ...